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Any of various agricultural pest rodents of genus Meriones or rodents of certain species in the genera Sekeetamys, Brachiones, and sometimes Pachyuromys.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1997, Harold Townson, Chapter 9: Infection of mosquitoes with filaria, J. M. Crampton, C. B. Beard, C. Louis, The Molecular Biology of Insect Disease Vectors, World Health Organization, Chapman & Hall, page 105, The jird need not be anaesthetized prior to inoculation.
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gerbil of northern Africa
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: gerbil, gerbille
Probably from Arabic جُرَذ (juraḏ, “a rat”) in a vulgar pronunciation.
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
沙鼠
(shāshǔ)
— any of various rodents
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Finnish:
jirdi
— any of various rodents
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Hungarian:
versenyegér
— any of various rodents
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Hungarian:
futóegér
— any of various rodents
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Kazakh:
құмтышқан
(qūmtyşqan)
— any of various rodents
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Korean:
메리오네스속
(merioneseusok)
— any of various rodents
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Polish:
suwak
— any of various rodents
